George Galloway on Iran

An oldie but goldie as they'd say. It might already be too late to put the war genie back in the bottle, but while there is still time, there is still hope. Listen to ole' George sum up the whole thing in just a few minutes and point out bitter truths to some warmongering armchair general.

The Skyrim ban petition.

You better believe it. Its most likely a troll petition. I do hope it is. But..eeeh the 200+ votes for it? It shows there are people who agree with it or some of it. I doubt they are all troll votes.


https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/immediately-ban-deadly-videogame-known-skyrim-safety-americas-youths/YmY1bLQ5

Watch it and weep

 

And well, that is supposed to be an elected representative. As in - the cream and crop of a nation. Back in the day of say the good olde Roman empire, you did not apologise to the barbarians you conquered before taking away their valuables. You came, you saw and you conquered and thats how it was done, without such repulsive insults to common sense and human dignity. At least the Romans brought civilization with them, and by civilization I don't mean McDonalds, I mean roads, running water, sanitation, public buildings. Unlike a certain other starting with U and ending on SA. Where they go, civilization ends. Iraq is now a tribal/sectarian mess, roads are bombed out and dangerous, you can forget about running water and electricity and schools and such? Going out to the market is dangerous enough.

And it goes on and on...

60 casualties in a NATO base attack...but otherwise the country is pacified.  And its a fair bet there were several times that number of attackers. Company sized unit. Its been 10 years already and if the Afghani insurgents(I'm not going to call them Taliban) are emboldened enough to try something that big, because come on - major attack means major retaliation, gunships and bombs will arrive in no time, they are on the rise again. Big time too.
Its an easy guess why the ANA won't be fighting them once/if it ever takes over. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/09/afghan-soldiers-disarmed-australian-uruzgan   Actually I think most of them would turn their guns on the most hard-line collaborators. They have no reason to do anything else. They don't believe they are being "liberated", but they get to see the money syphoned out from the Karzai's government faster that the rate of UAV attacked weddings and funerals. Works wonders for the esprit de corps.